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She is an Affiliate at the Data & Society Research Institute in New York City, where she most recently directed an initiative to explore the effects of data-centric systems on Americans’ health and well-being and led several studies examining the intersection of privacy and digital inequality. Prior to her role at Data & Society, Mary was a Senior Researcher for the Pew Research Center’s Internet, Science & Technology team in Washington, DC and an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.  \nElizabeth Rood, EdD  \nElizabeth Rood is an education adviser, researcher, and writer with expertise in youth development, learning, and participatory program design. She is the Founder and Principal of Learning Designs Consulting, which provides advisory services in educational media and experiential learning. Prior, she served as Vice President of Education at the Bay Area Discovery Museum and Director of the Center for Childhood Creativity, the research arm of the museum. Elizabeth also has a background in formal urban education, as a teacher, principal, and leadership coach in San Francisco public schools. Elizabeth currently serves as the National Vice President of the Children’s Media Association, a professional organization connecting people in a wide range of kids’ media and technology industries.  \nsuggested citation  \nMadden, M. and E. Rood (2022). Models of youth-adult collaboration for public media. Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop.  \nModels of youth-adult collaboration for public media is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionShareAlike 4.0 International License.  \nA full-text PDF of this publication is available as a free [download from www.joanganzcooneycenter.org](download from www.joanganzcooneycenter.org).  \nModels of Youth-Adult Collaboration for Public Media  \nI feel like, I don’t know if it’s a misconception, but I just know there are a lot of different types of teenagers. So it’s hard to just say,‘Teenagers like this.’  \n—Boy, age 17  \nI just want to say, be nice to kids and respect kids. And respect opinions and respect cultures, and respect ideas.  \nIn real life, adults usually treat teens like we’re not smart in anything.  \n—giRl, age 15  \n—Boy, age 15  \nAmong the key insights drawn from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center’s Missing Middle research project was that many teens and tweens are eager to see more authentic representations oftheir interests, concerns, and “kids like them” in the stories they see. The youth we interviewed (ages 10–18) expressed seeing a lack of diversity in the current mainstream media landscape and a sense that much of the content that is meant to appeal to tweens and teens does not really “get” what being a teenager is like today. Few youth were active viewers or listeners of either local or national public  \nmedia programming—in part because they either were not aware ofit or did not feel as though the current offerings were meant for them.  \nFor public media, this represents an opportunity. Collaborating directly with youth not only helps to address issues of representation and relevance but also creates pathways for youth to bring valued forms of expertise and knowledge to projects that are designed to engage them and their peers. Youth-focused public media projects have the potential to give youth power and voice in a world where they often have little.  \nExisting research helps to make the case for public media to invest in youth participation in support of their mandate to develop programming that is both responsive to and representative of teen and tween ","cbCaiojsuX5BRVoR","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiojsuX5BRVoR","pdf",537946,13,"English","# Models of Youth-Adult Collaboration for Public Media\n## Author and suggested citation\n## Youth perspectives and representation gaps\n## Why collaboration matters for relevance and impact\n## Evidence from research on civic and political participation","[{\"question\":\"What do teens and tweens say they need from public media?\",\"answer\":\"They want more authentic representations of their interests, concerns, and “kids like them,” and they report that existing mainstream content often does not feel like it understands what being a teenager is like today.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is youth collaboration described as important for public media projects?\",\"answer\":\"Collaborating directly with youth helps address issues of representation and relevance and creates pathways for youth to contribute valuable expertise and knowledge to projects meant to engage peers.\"},{\"question\":\"How does youth-adult collaboration relate to civic and political participation?\",\"answer\":\"The brief links media production initiatives to increased feelings of societal influence and to online political participation, noting that equitable access to technology, digital skills, civic education, and activism spaces supports civic youth engagement.\"}]","Models of Youth-Adult Collaboration for Public Media - Research Brief | PDF",1792052272,33]